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The title says it all. I want to associate native applications with file types in WINE.

Anwar
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Here is how you associate native applications in wine:

From the Wine FAQ

You can associate winebrowser with any file types to achieve the result. winebrowser program uses xdg-open to find the native application for a file type.

You need to create a registry file with these contents to associate .pdf files. Save it as import.reg file in your home folder.

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.pdf]
@="PDFfile"
"Content Type"="application/pdf"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\PDFfile\Shell\Open\command]
@="winebrowser \"%1\""

Now import the registry file using this command

regedit $HOME/pdf.reg

This will open pdf files from Wine applications with the native application which is set as default for a pdf file.

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Anwar
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A step by step instruction can be found here: http://www.webupd8.org/2010/03/how-to-make-wine-open-links-in-your.html

You have to create for every file type first a corresponding ending like ".pptx" or ".mp4", associate it with "pptxfile" or "mp4file" under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT. pptxfile or mp4file then need the same registry entry shown above for

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\YOUR ASSOCIATED FILENAME\Shell\Open\command "winebrowser \"%1\"

The "associated filename" is pptxfile or mp4file, or whatever you have associated to the file type.

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